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What if moongates were more common, but were dangerous to use?

What If is a series of articles examining how the Dark Sun setting might be different if a single aspect were changed.

Moongates are a concept introduced in the 4e Dark Sun Campaign Setting, and supposedly provided a means to travel from Athas to the moons of Ral and Guthay, but the concept was never truly fleshed out. If used in a Dark Sun game, moongates should probably be quite difficult to find, with only a handful of gates to be found on Athas and maybe only one or two each on Ral and Guthay. But, what if they weren’t?